The sea has no patience for moral compromise, and Captain Rawson Bent of the coast-guard cutter Arrowsic lives by that truth. When word comes of a schooner foundering on Popham Sands, Bent races into the teeth of a storm, but the Harvest Home carries more than cargo. Her crew deals in illegal liquor, and tangled in their dubious affairs is Captain York Coombs, Bent's former colleague now fallen from grace and fleeing the law. What begins as a rescue mission becomes something more complicated: a test of loyalty between two men who once sailed together, one bound by duty, the other by desperation. Day writes with the authentic crack of海上 dialect and the brutal beauty of a Maine coast winter, giving us a adventure that earns its redemption through action, not easy forgiveness. The moral waters here are as murky as the Atlantic in December.
